Category Archives: Computing
Raspberry Pi Micro
The Raspberry Pi has been heavily influenced by the legacy of the BBC Micro — right from being an educational computing platform, all the way to having a B version that has twice the memory of the A-version, plus networking! So the first thing I wanted to do when I got hold of one was [...]
Git Un-Merge
When I last merged a development branch of add-rel-lightbox into the master branch and realised that I’d not finished testing the changes, it was off to the internet to find out how to undo a merge. After a couple of goes at git revert -m 1 refused to do anything, and a little more searching, [...]
Putting Dotfiles in Git
If you’re a Windows user, then you probably won’t have come across dotfiles before. For Mac (a form of Unix) and Linux users, dotfiles hold certain environmental settings and customisations, so if you work on more than one computer, you might like a way of sharing your preferences between them. And they’re called “dotfiles” because [...]
LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF now compatible with LaTeX Project Structure Guidelines
I’ve pushed a couple up updates to LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF that come from some changes I made to my largest LaTeX project file. Since I converted a long (>100 pages) document from Microsoft Word format to LaTeX, I’ve now split the file down into the separate chapters for easier editing that are all \include{}‘d or \input{}‘d from [...]
LaTeX + SVGs to PDFs
Source of the LaTeX+SVGs to PDF makefile is available to download, use, change, tinker and fork at Github. I wrote last week about how figures can be transfered from a Microsoft Word document into a LaTeX document by extracting them as vector images using Inkscape, and saved as Scalable Vector Graphic files (SVG). Unfortunately, SVG [...]
Removing “Facebook like” and “Google +1″ from your browsing
There are any number of reasons why you might want to remove Facebook like and Google +1 buttons from websites you view, but if you don’t use these services, or don’t like to publish link repeats in your social media stream; then, at best, they serve as visual clutter while you browse. Obviously, these tools [...]
Joining pdf files
When I generate pdf files of part designs for printing, each drawing is a single file, each only a single page. This is great for viewing/sharing/printing a single part, but when I’m printing packs of technical drawings, printing several copies each of 50 (ish) pdf files and then collating those into packs is not simple. [...]
What a difference a drive makes
SSD or HDD? The warning of some bad sectors on my hard disk drive told me that I needed a new disk soon, before data loss caught up with me. I know that SSDs are faster than HDD, though the capacities are lower and the cost is greater; but is that extra speed worth it [...]